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An Ohio University professor pleaded not guilty yesterday to a 12-count indictment filed in
Athens County charging him with child-pornography crimes.

Common Pleas Judge George P. McCarthy set bond at $50,000 for Amol T. Kharabe.

OU has placed Kharabe, 41, of Dublin, on paid administrative leave from his $121,160-a-year job
as an assistant professor in the College of Business. Kharabe was hired in August 2012, said OU
spokeswoman Katie Quaranta.

Kharabe is charged with nine counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor. Conviction on the
second-degree felony, the most-serious offense with which he is charged, carries a maximum sentence
of eight years in prison per count, said Assistant County Prosecutor Meg Saunders.

He also is charged with single counts of pandering obscenity, illegal use of a minor in
nudity-oriented material or performance and possessing criminal tools.

Kharabe had a laptop containing child pornography, Saunders said. The indictment does not
indicate whether it was his laptop or one that belonged to the university, she said.

An investigation began when an Athens Police Department detective learned of child-pornography
activity that was tied to an Internet-provider address at OU, Saunders said.